Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Revisionist. Along with the other U.S. delegates, he had an hour-long meeting with Secretary of State Stettinius. At its conclusion, Senator Vandenberg handed Ed Stettinius a nine-point memorandum suggesting revisions in the Dumbarton Oaks formula. None of them was unacceptable to the Secretary of State...
Seven members of the League of Women Voters went into the streets of Chattanooga and asked 98 passersby: "What do you think of Dumbarton Oaks?" Some of the answers...
Totting up, the League ladies found that 50 of those questioned had never heard of the Dumbarton Oaks world-security plan, 44 were for it, two against, two neutral. Said one of the aginners: "It's the bunk. The trouble is Russia...
John Foster Dulles, Republican internationalist who, as Tom Dewey's representative, enabled Cordell Hull to take Dumbarton Oaks out of politics, made his principal pre-San Francisco speech in Manhattan. He demanded that the San Francisco Conference make two essential improvements on the Dumbarton Oaks plan-which he called a plan without a soul. "My first proposal," said he, "is that the organization should be infused with an ethical spirit, the spirit of justice. . . . The charter should require the new organization, as its first order of business, to undertake the difficult but essential task of developing conceptions of justice...
Fifteen ex-Europeans in the U.S. last week raised this warning against Yalta, Dumbarton Oaks, the whole trend of Big Three power-thinking. Their alternative: a European confederation of independent states, linked by a continental Parliament, Cabinet, President and Army...